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GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 vs GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

Intro

The GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 comes with core clock speeds of 540 MHz on the GPU, and 400 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR2 RAM. It features 32 SPUs as well as 16 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, which has GPU core speed of 1607 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2432 Stream Processors, 152 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 47 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 180 Watts
Difference: 133 Watts (283%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should be much faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 262144 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 12800 MB/sec
Difference: 249344 (1948%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should be quite a bit (more or less 2727%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 244264 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 8640 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 235624 (2727%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 102848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 4320 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 98528 (2281%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year April 2007 November 2017
Code Name G84 GP104-300
Memory 512 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 540 MHz 1607 MHz
Memory Speed 800 MHz 8000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 47 watts 180 watts
Bandwidth 12800 MB/sec 262144 MB/sec
Texel Rate 8640 Mtexels/sec 244264 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4320 Mpixels/sec 102848 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 2432
Texture Mapping Units 16 152
Render Output Units 8 64
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 16 nm
Transistors 289 million 7200 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2

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